SNOW AT NIGHT

February 25, 2010. This is my snow picture. The snow started on Thursday and has continued through the remainder of the week. At the end of my training class, I managed to get out of the building, across a soggy, slushy bridge and into the subway at the foot of the island – without falling over. This panel of torn away poster, overlaid with graffiti and exposed background glue, looks more like the snow in the night to me. The graffiti is the outline of the buildings of the city. The snow continued to swirl in bands, radiating in waves of snow and clear. I could watch the entire pattern unfold from my warm office window.

I LOVE MONSTERS

February 6, 2010. Christopher Street subway station. After venturing to Queens to see a collage, montage, assemblage show, in which Philip had 3 pieces, we traveled to the trusty Riviera for burgers (or something) and beer (or something). This sign was there as we left to go underground. Of course we love monsters. What are they anyway? Isn’t it often something that we don’t understand, that is other than us? So then in those cases it might just be a lack of perspective or empathy that causes us to see the ‘other’ as a monster. I say we should pray for the monster and embrace them when we can.